Re: marine info plugin

**Iceberg** · 10-17-2006, 01:31 PM

Wyz, perhaps we can lower the server load by limiting the funtion to Commanders and Gorges?

**Wyzcrak** · 10-17-2006, 03:51 PM

The scoreboard integration, you mean? That's my thought exactly.

**Slayer of Hippies** · 10-17-2006, 10:01 PM

Is it feasible to modify the alien color scheme so that lifeform names end up color-coded?

Example, I type res and get this (forgive the improper reproduction of the chart, I don't want to screw with the tg game anymore than I have already, use your imagination to interpolate this with the _real display):

EdwardScissorHands
29 Res
FADE CF_

ImSoPretty
3 Res
GORGE AS_

Dilbert
14 Res
SKULK SF_

Beano
34 Res
LERK CS_

GitInMyBelly
45 Res
ONOS CS_

**Wyzcrak** · 10-18-2006, 12:28 AM

I love the idea, but I'm not sure it would work very well, as the textures behind the text will not always be different colors, so you'll have a hard time reading some of the text. Also, I can only use four channels, and no one channel can display two colors.

**Pokerface** · 10-18-2006, 02:14 AM

I'd like to propose stripping a set of characters from names in the display. I don't know if I'm ready to say "Limit the display to alphanumerics only", but that's the direction I'm pointed.

Some fellow with }=={>< mynamehere <>}=={ (or some similar nonsense) wouldn't have an actual name on the list, and I'd be forced to look at the scoreboard to guess who it's talking about.

**Kerostasis** · 10-18-2006, 02:18 AM

Could you include the old plugin with a different commandline, for those of us who thought it was that much more readable? (For aliens only.)

Knowing what upgrades my teammates have may be cool, but it takes up 3 times as much screen space for a benefit I very rarely need to use. Knowing the res distribution of the team is much more immediately useful.

**Slayer of Hippies** · 10-18-2006, 02:46 AM

Are you using client_print to do the actual sending of the /res message?

PS: While I'm bugging you, can you direct me to a link about changing the printed text's color? Browsing through amxmodx.org I'm not coming up with anything. =\

**Ferris Bueller** · 10-18-2006, 09:52 AM

i completely agree with kero. as nice as it is to know what upgrades the fade has, when im rushing a team full of marines beating down on my hive as a skulk, its too much screen space. i say we just go back to the old style of the /res screen that came up where its just:

Code:

wyzcrak - 55
ferris bueller - 10
slayer of hippies - 31
...
etc, ad nauseam.

much easier to read, plus if you want to know what upgrades someone on your team has, you can just ask. the only way i can see that any of that info would be useful is on marines, and then only if the minimap displayed people's names, so you could see that so-and-so, who by looking at your minimap is at c12, is parasited, but has a shotgun. so if he dies, you know right where to go to recycle the guns. for aliens, its almost useless as you cant pick up other people's upgrades when they die, so...

**Slayer of Hippies** · 10-18-2006, 09:06 PM

Perhaps there could be two commands. /res (+showres) would give the terse descriptions of players and their res counts, sorted from highest to lowest res count. While in the meantime, /ups (+showupgrades) would show player statuses (as /res does now) in detail, sorted from highest to lowest investment (onos, fade, lerk, gorge, skulk, from top to bottom). The way that works, I can press one bind to trigger a sort-by-resources list, and a second bind to trigger a sort-by-lifeform list. This eliminates the need for colors and keeps the screen real estate as clean as possible.

Just a thought.

**Flarfignuggen** · 10-18-2006, 10:47 PM

Just out of curiosity, why do we need to know our teammates' upgrades? Not being hostile or anything, but I honestly do not see it.

**Slayer of Hippies** · 10-18-2006, 11:06 PM

Meh. I guess you can use the scoreboard to assess who is what well enough.

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